MELT! 2010 (DE)

Dear colleagues, dear friends of Melt! Festival, it's number 13, baby. We are proud and happy to present the next load of acts for the 13th Edition of Melt! The festival can confirm today exclusive festival gigs by Kings of Convenience, Goldfrapp and Kele of Bloc Party fame. The Norwegians Kings of Convenience will once again teach us a lesson in quiteness. Flying on a synth aound carpet, the British duo Goldfrapp will present their brandnew album "Head First". After acclaimed performances of Melt! legends Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke will present this year, his solo project "Kele" exclusively between the steel giants of Ferropolis.



Kings of Convenience

The people of Norway seem to indulge in silence gladly. Erlend Øye and his duo partner Erik Glambek Bøe have cultivated this musically for nearly a decade now. Acoustic guitars are paired with nearly aspired vocals, accompanied by strings and brass. Last year, Kings of Convenience released their third album „Declaration of Dependence.” Melt! 2010 is in for exquisite ambiance.

Goldfrapp

Alison Goldfrapp’s career started out with punk and goth collaborations. She kept that attitude, of course, yet the genre she changed drastically. On the 19th of March, her new release “Head First” is in stores. Soft and sweet synth sounds plus pop aesthetics galore are on top of the British duo’s agenda today: a handful of optimism for Melt! summer 2010.

Kele

After their UK tour, Bloc Party announced that the band would take an indefinite break. However, that doesn’t mean the four-piece is retiring from the music biz altogether. Quite the contrary. Frontman Kele Okereke is starting 2010 with his solo project “Kele”. Who knows which sound experiments, he’s been conjuring. One thing’s for sure: he’ll take over Gemini Stage which is known for dancefloor fillers galore. We are very excited to present powerful indie acts such as the Shout Out Louds, Yeasayer, Jamie T, Midlake, Delphic, Friendly Fires, Johnossi, Health and The Big Pink. Furthermore it's an honor to welcome the Dirty Projectors for their only appearance in Germany this year.

Melt! has alwasy been big on pop music. And pop lovers will be happy to hear that we can confirm performances of Miike Snow, Hercules And Love Affair, Jamie Lidell, Hurts and German shooting stars Bonaparte, which will not only appear in their feature with Modeselektor but will also present the band's brandnew album in full length on the main stage. Talking about Modeselektor: The Melt! Selector stage is complete: Modeselektor feat. Bonaparte live (Visuals: Pfadfinderei), Jamie XX, Black Rose (Jesse Rose & Henrik Schwarz live), Martyn vs. Kode 9, Mala, Jackmaster and Skate will present new stuff.

Unfortunately The Wombats had to cancel their Melt! appearance. Again. Just as in 2008 the British band let us know that they would rather concentrate on their next album. Long live the artistic freedom.

All the newly confirmed acts at a glance

1000 Robota | The Big Pink | Bonaparte | Danger (live) | Darwin Deez | Delphic | Dirty Projectors | Douster | Edu K | Friendly Fires | Goldfrapp | Daniel Haaksman | Health | Hercules And Love Affair | Holy Ghost | Hurts | Jamie T | Johnossi | Kele | Kings Of Convenience | Kode 9 vs. Martyn | Jamie Lidell | Midlake | Miike Snow | Ewan Pearson | Shout Out Louds | Skate | Tiefschwarz | Tommie Sunshine | Tiga | Martina Topley-Bird | Yeasayer

All confirmed acts so far

1000 Robota | A-Trak | Matias Aguayo & Band | Ellen Allien | An Horse | Ata | The Big Pink | Black Rose (Henrik Schwarz & Jesse Rose live) | Blood Red Shoes | Booka Shade | Bonaparte | Boris | Bratze | Chromeo | Carl Craig feat. Mike Banks | Chris Cunningham | Clues | Crookers | Danger | Darwin Deez | Delphic | Marcel Dettmann | Dirty Projectors | dOP | Douster | Edu K | Egotronic | Fake Blood | Fred Falke live | Marcel Fengler | Roman Flügel | Foals | Four Tet | Frittenbude | Friendly Fires | Sascha Funke | Get Well Soon | Goldfrapp | Daniel Haaksman | Health | Hemmann & Kaden live | Hercules And Love Affair | Holy Ghost | Nick Höppner | Hurts | Ja, Panik | Jackmaster | Jamie T | Jamie XX | Jamaica | Johnossi | Markus Kavka | Kele | Kings Of Convenience | Ben Klock | Oliver Koletzki | Kode 9 vs. Martyn | Monika Kruse | Jamie Lidell | Lindstrøm & Christabelle | Mala | Massive Attack | Midlake | Miike Snow Modeselektor feat. Bonaparte live | ND Baumecker | Norman Nodge | Pantha Du Prince | Ewan Pearson | DJ Pete | Popof live | Post War Years | Prosumer | Riton | Saalschutz | Schlachthofbronx | DJ Shadow | Shed live | Shout Out Louds | Sinden | Skate | Steffi | Die Sterne | Tama Sumo | Tiefschwarz | Tommie Sunshine | Matthias Tanzmann | Tobias Thomas | Tiga | Tocotronic | Martina Topley Bird | Two Door Cinema Club | The Very Best | Ricardo Villalobos | Joris Voorn live | Wareika | WhoMadeWho | Yeasayer | The XX
It's unbelievable. Other 20 acts will be announced soon.
Tickets

3-day ticket valid for Friday, Saturday and Sunday:
EUR 94 plus pre-sale fee and EUR 5 garbage deposit
From may on beautiful 3-day hardpapertickets will be available under www.meltfestival.de/en/tickets.

2-day ticket valid for Friday and Saturday:
EUR 74 plus pre-sale fee and EUR 5 garbage deposit

In the price included are camping and parking (from Thursday 15.07. 01:00pm until Monday, 19.07. 03:00pm).

Infos: www.meltfestival.de/en/tickets

Official Melt! Opener - The Audiolith Pferdemarkt on July 15th:
We get the Audiolith Crew and their mixing-prone hands onboard officially and give them a highly official site opening party of a virgin festival site: Saalschutz, Egotronic, Bratze, Frittenbude and, of course, the DJs of the Hamburg cult label are going to take over the Melt! Klub on 15th of July. The capacity for the pre-party is limited to 3,000 people, so we are charging 5,- Euro (including fees) for entrance. Part of that fee will be donated to local social projects (more info to come soon). Tickets are only available as etickets via www.meltfestival.de/tickets. A part of the revenues we donate to the "The Concert in memory of Alberto Adriano" on June 12th in Dessau.